ganzo

See also: ganzō

Galician

Alternative forms

gancio

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”),^[1] or directly from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱank- (“branch”).^[2]^[3] Doublet of gancho.

Pronunciation

(standard) IPA^(key): /ˈɡanθo̝/

Noun

ganzo m (plural ganzos)

(dated) dried or partially burned twig in the past used as a torch

Derived terms

gancela (“kindling”)

Related terms

gancho (“hook”)

References

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ganzo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ganzo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ganzo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “gancho”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157
^ García Trabazo, José Virgilio (2016) “Prelatin Toponymy of Asturies: a critical review in a historical-comparative perspective”, in Lletres Asturianes‎^[1], number 115, retrieved 14 June 2018, pages 51-71

Italian

Adjective

ganzo (feminine ganza, masculine plural ganzi, feminine plural ganze)

(archaic) extra-marriage lover
(informal, outdated, humorous) smart, clever, cool
Synonym: figo

Usage notes

The smart sense is similar to figo but with a slightly less sexual sense/component and a component of furbo (“cunning, sly”). It's a mix of brilliant, [mildly] gorgeous, [very] cool and [sort of] presumptuous.

Anagrams

gonza

Portuguese

Verb

ganzo

first-person singular present indicative of ganzar

Venetan

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

Noun

ganzo m (plural ganzi)

hook

Descendants

→ Greek: γάντζος (gántzos)
→ Serbo-Croatian: gȁnac, gȁnač (Dalmatian dialectal forms of Croatian)
→ Ottoman Turkish: قانجه (kanca, kance), قنجه (kanca, kance)
- Turkish: kanca
- → Arabic: قَنْجَة (qanja, “a kind of sailing boat of up to two masts used for housing and for pleasure-trips”), غَنْجَة (ḡanja)
  - → English: cangia
  - → French: cange
  - → Italian: cangia
    - → Spanish: canja
- → Armenian: խանճա (xanča)
- → Aromanian: cánǧe, gánǧe
- → Albanian: ganxhë, kanxhë
- → Bulgarian: ка́нджа (kándža)
- → Greek: γάντζα (gántza), κάντζα (kántza)
- → Macedonian: канџа (kandža)
- → Romanian: cange
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: ка̑нџа
  Latin script: kȃndža

References

Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 244–247